Originally posted by drjon at Livejournal password hacking attempt currently going on
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Details here, but if you see this:

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Originally posted by kirukiruchan at asperger =

I found something on Urban Dictionary that clearly had offended me about Autism. I mean isn't it bad enough that we receive ignorance about our conditions? If anyone wants to see the article, its here: http://www. ( Read more... )

Originally posted by rosefox at "I can see you!"
From journalfen/unfunnybusiness:

Yesterday morning, Livejournal announced that it had implemented release 86, which supposedly "fixed" and "improved" several features of the site. A little over 24 hours later, the complaints on the release post are still rolling in (around 800 comments worth at the time of ( Read more... )

Originally posted by Itlas on Fetlifei think u all remember professor Quirrel,the man possesed by Voldemort with his demon face on the head,well someone like him has existed in real life ( Read more... )

Originally posted by ianrandalstrock at When is 10 more than 50?
A writer friend of mine recently told me about a deal he's signed with a small publisher, a contract his agent called very author-friendly. The publisher will be paying him 50% of their income on the book. His comment preyed on my mind for a while, because I pay my authors 10% of cover price. Am I ( Read more... )

Originally posted by kengr at Occupy Portland
The Portland "branch" of "Occupy Wall Street (Occupy Portland) has gotten a lot of coverage and is remarkably free of trouble. They wanted to not have the powers-that-be able to block off wherever they decided to go, so they didn't apply for a parade permit. The cops did their best to keep problems from ( Read more... )

Originally posted by bart_calendar at Blame Canada
Just in case you thought Americans had cornered the North American market on crazy intolerance, check out this ad that's running in Canadian newspapers this week.


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Originally posted by kengr at On kids
On the kingdom mailing list, there have been a number of comments about kids and making them safe (triggered by some unclear rule changes about what sort of supervision kids need at events ( Read more... )

Originally posted by bart_calendar at UK Riots
You know, it's like governments have no institutional memory at all ( Read more... )